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Neo-Nazi activity is increasing in Boston. Here’s a timeline of recent events.
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NSC 131, a neo-Nazi group primarily based in New England, most lately made headlines for protesting a drag queen story hour in Jamaica Plain.
Specialists agree: white supremacism is turning into extra distinguished in Boston and the encircling areas. Spurred by teams like Patriot Entrance and NSC 131, hateful propaganda, flash demonstrations, and full-on marches have captured the eye of residents and officers alike.
Massachusetts had the fourth highest ranges of hate propaganda exercise in America final 12 months, in accordance with a report launched this spring by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). The Bay State solely fell behind Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Texas on this entrance. Racist and antisemitic flyers, banners, and stickers are the standard methods by which these teams unfold their messaging to the general public.
In 2021, the Southern Poverty Regulation Middle (SPLC) tracked 14 hate teams in Massachusetts. Patriot Entrance, the group that marched by means of Boston in early July and allegedly assaulted a Black activist, was discovered by the ADL to be most lively in 5 explicit states, together with Massachusetts. Nationally, Patriot Entrance was behind greater than 82 p.c of propaganda incidents.
Neo-Nazi exercise in Boston
Whereas Patriot Entrance is extra distinguished nationally, a lot of the native exercise is organized by NSC 131, whose message is extra explicitly in keeping with Nazi ideology. Members of the group “see themselves as troopers at struggle with a hostile, Jewish-controlled system that’s intentionally plotting the extinction of the white race,” in accordance with the ADL.
The group has made a number of appearances in Boston, together with scores of demonstrations in different New England states.
NSC 131 lately made headlines in late July, when the group demonstrated exterior a neighborhood middle in Jamaica Plain the place a youngsters’s drag queen story hour was going down. Chris Hood, who leads the group, was arrested.
Beneath is a timeline of latest, notable NSC 131 exercise within the metropolis from Could 2021 by means of July 2022. The data included comes from the ADL, reporting from Boston.com, and Waltham Night’s Watch, a company that paperwork hate teams, hate crimes, and far-right exercise
Neo-Nazi exercise in Boston
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Sunday, Could 23
About 10 members of NSC 131 display exterior the New England Holocaust Memorial in Boston on Could 23, 2021.
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Saturday, October 16
On October 16, 2021, about eight individuals related to NSC 131 maintain a banner over an overpass in Cambridge that reads “refugees not welcome.”
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Saturday, November 13
About 20 individuals related to NSC 131 protest exterior the Lucy Parsons Middle on November 13, 2021. The Lucy Parsons Middle is an impartial, progressive bookstore and neighborhood area in Jamaica Plain.
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Saturday, January 22
About two dozen individuals related to NSC 131 collect exterior Brigham and Girls’s Hospital holding a banner that reads “B and W Hospital Kills Whites” on January 22, 2022. Flyers had been handed out with the photographs of two Brigham and Girls’s docs condemning them for so-called “preferential well being care insurance policies for non-white sufferers.”
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Saturday, February 12
About 20 individuals related to NSC 131 dangle banners from a pedestrian bridge in Boston that learn “Reds out of Boston,” “White lives matter” and “White persistence has limits” on February 12, 2022.
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Saturday, March 12
About 12 individuals related to NSC 131 stage demonstrations in a number of places across the Boston metro space on March 12, 2022. Messages displayed embody “Defend New England,” “White Lives Matter,” and “Be a part of Your Native Anti-Antifa Crew.”
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Sunday, March 20
About 20 individuals carrying NSC 131 insignia appeared alongside the route of South Boston’s St. Patrick’s Day parade on March 20, 2022. They displayed a banner with the phrases “preserve Boston Irish,” together with the NSC 131 emblem. One other member waved a flag bearing the white supremacist model of the Celtic Cross.
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Saturday, Could 7
A gaggle related to NSC 131 collect at Park St. Station in downtown Boston on Could 7, 2022. They displayed a banner and handed out flyers that learn “Gangs of Blacks are attacking aged and feminine white individuals in and round downtown Boston.” This might have been in response to experiences of youngsters assaulting individuals within the space.
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Saturday, July 23
A gaggle of about 20 NSC 131 members collect exterior the Loring Greenough Home in Jamaica Plain to protest a youngsters’s drag queen story hour taking place inside on July 23, 2022. They show a banner that reads “Pedo scum off our streets.” Christopher Hood, chief of NSC 131, is arrested and charged with affray.